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Oil on canvas, 63.5x77 cm (25x30¼"). Matted and framed, overall 88x101.5 cm (34½x40").

Signed at lower left. Striking scene of a Sierra lake, the remains of the winter's snow fall on the hillsides in the distance. On the reverse of the canvas is an unfinished oil sketch of three Native Americans on horseback. Edgar Alwin Payne (1883–1947) was an American Western landscape painter and muralist. Born in Washburn Missouri, Payne left home at 14, traveling the United states as an itinerant sign-painter and muralist before settling in Laguna Beach, California with his wife Elsie. Payne was the founder and first president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Laguna Art Museum, he was also a member of the Chicago Society of Artists, the Palette and Chisel Club, and many other art associations. Payne's works hang in galleries and museums throughout California and the Unites States. Provenance: The collection of J. Patrick Ford, San Diego, California. Purchased from the Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco.